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In a seemingly unremarkable strip-mall restaurant three blocks south of the tourist-mobbed clusterfuck that is Hollywood and Highland, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time mulling over a hypnotizing Phuket-style curry brimming with blue crab — in the way I’d imagine a bewildered Caltech undergrad reacts to a TED Talk...

It's hard to deny the inherent cuteness of miniature-sized things, especially iced Thai drinks shrunk down to a size that would make an American Girl doll look like she's holding a tumbler glass. At eight-month-old Manaow Thai in Long Beach, experienced Thai chef Nitaya Pungauthaikan, who founded the first Thai restaurant...

Is food art? It's an unanswerable question, a debate that's simultaneously fascinating and played out, up there with "Beatles or Stones?" and "Is there a God?" Yet it's come up repeatedly in my conversations about Night + Market Song. The artistry here is not about food manipulations, or plating-as-painting, or...

Pop-up restaurants seem to happen every week in Los Angeles, where permanent kitchens cost premium prices and chef collaborations are a cause for celebration. Hell, there's been so many pop-up variations this past year that there's even been pop-ups within restaurant pop-ups (pop-up-ception?). But over the next few weeks, there'll...

Much like hundreds of other Thai restaurateurs in Southern California, Andy Ricker was attracted to Los Angeles in part thanks to LAX-C, the "Thai Costco” that sits on nearly six acres of land at 1100 N. Broadway, not far from downtown. In addition to the main cash-and-carry grocery business, LAX-C...

It’s the season of pumpkins, when that orange, hard-skinned, winter squash shows up in everything from ravioli to beer. So why limit yourself to that same old synthetic Starbucks pumpkin spice? Thai Town is filled with far more interesting pumpkin dishes to tempt your palate. In Thailand, pumpkins are available...